Crush

Watch Crush (2002) online on iFILM — a British-German comedy-drama from director John McKay about three women in their forties stuck in a small English town, each with a love life that ranges from dormant to catastrophic.

Kate (Andie MacDowell) runs the local school; her two best friends are the town's police chief and a doctor who has been through three divorces and considers herself an authority on romantic disaster. They meet weekly for gin, cigarettes, and a frank accounting of who has it worst. Things unravel when Kate starts a secret affair with a man half her age. Imelda Staunton and Anna Chancellor play the friends — women whose attachment to Kate tips into something closer to jealousy than you'd expect from a long friendship.

The film's best move is treating the friends as the real emotional engine, not the romance itself. Stream Crush (2002) online on iFILM.